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Title: Silly startups: Here's to the crazy ones, the misfits, the rebels ... the dumb ones Post by: HCK on December 24, 2014, 09:00:18 am Silly startups: Here's to the crazy ones, the misfits, the rebels ... the dumb ones
<article> <section class="page"> <p>Technology can be awesome, when it’s put to good use. A map on your phone? A satellite (http://www.skyboximaging.com/) that can help farmers monitor their crops? Great! But not everything is so useful.</p><p>Many companies emerged in 2014 offering new ways to help people connect, get stuff done, or find that special someone. Slack (https://slack.com/), for example, offers a chatty alternative to work email. Or Yonomi (http://www.pcworld.com/article/2851232/connectedhome-babel-theres-an-app-for-that-startup-says.html) might actually make an Internet connected home feasible. But other new startups, looking for that new and original thing, peddled products that were gimmicky, legally unsound, or just not super useful.</p><p class="jumpTag"><a href="/article/2862792/startups-the-crazy-ones-the-misfits-the-rebels-the-dumb-ones.html#jump">To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here[/url]</p></section></article> Source: Silly startups: Here's to the crazy ones, the misfits, the rebels ... the dumb ones (http://www.macworld.com/article/2862792/startups-the-crazy-ones-the-misfits-the-rebels-the-dumb-ones.html#tk.rss_all) |